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...rally of consumers to wage a buyers' strike on meat until price controls were restored. (Demonstrating C.I.O. members in Cleveland jostled placards which promised: "I won't buy you anything but love, baby.") All over the nation, housewives talked up to their grocers. Wholesale prices on meat, butter and poultry fell off from post-OPA highs...
...Ceilings on meat, poultry, butter, eggs, milk and grain would remain off at least until...
Everyday exhibited seven pieces from Wright's set. Its sturdiness won out against butter-fingered dishwashers; it was inexpensive - a 20-piece "starter set" sold for about $6; it "put away" compactly-cups could be piled on each other without tumbling over; the solid colors were interchangeable. Nearly fourteen million pieces have been sold since 1939, at the rate (since 1943) of $1.5 millions worth a year...
Wheat, corn and oats also dropped, along with butter. But old king cotton just kept rolling up. At 35? a pound, cotton futures were up 25% in six weeks to a 23-year peak. Textile men expected some of the increase to be passed on to consumers before long...
Many a chain store, anxious to cash in on good will rather than quick profits, tried to hold the line. In the Midwest the giant Kroger chain (2,688 stores) boosted its prices on meat and butter only the amount of the lost Government subsidies: 7? a Ib. on beef, 15? on butter. But Kroger's able, friendly President Joseph B. Hall sadly admitted that the company has taken heavy losses in these items to hold the line even this much. It was also having a hard time replacing its depleted stocks at ceiling prices. Unless there was overall...